The House of Blue

Good post and I do assume you meant that I was one of the doom and gloom guys predicting UK may not even make the tourney and although I was worried for a while The Cats have shown good improvement and beaten the teams they should have beaten plus Ole Miss. I like the list you posted and you deserve a +1 for it. The strength of sched does make a huge difference but winning games against anyone can show improvement. Uk will be in the tourney but a win at Fla on Tuesday would sure help a lot. GO CATS

I think St. Marys' may surprise a lot of people in the tourney like Butler and VCU did in the past. There are some legit teams in your list and I think you could be right as far as the possibility of them going past the 1st weekend.

Yet Auburn barely lost to an Illini team that beat IU. I don't buy your point.

If you look mat the teams in the 15-25 range (along with those others receiving votes) there is no doubt that UK should be in the 15-20 range.

This was a consensus top 5 team to start the year based on the potential of its talented players. The Duke loss did not (and should not) impact the perception of this team. The thing that dramatically changed the perception of this team was one bad week of basketball in back-to-back losses against ND and at home against Baylor (the fact that Baylor has fallen apart recently doesn't help that perception).

Since that time, UK has a loss to a very good UL team (boy, it was hard to say that) and only two losses in conference play. If not for those back-to-back losses, UK would likely be in the top 15 and be a top 4 seed by Lunardi. But those losses caused UK to drop like a rock and despite playing much more consistent ball (even if not dominating in the way we would like). The perception of this UK team took a dramatic hit in those two games and despite the improvement in the team, there are few opportunities in SEC play to change that perception.

Great post and very interesting to look at.

Quick update ... UK has now re-entered the AP Top 25 at #25 this week.

It's because they're experienced. Rolls eyes.

MY point lol. Auburn is horrid just horrid. they lost to uri, depaul, murry, winthrop, there only win against top 75 comp was at home to Bama. Thats it. All of there other wins were against teams ranked higher than 150. Auburn is horrid.

So my point should be open for you to see. UK has beaten 1 team in the top 50 thats it close calls dont count. UK has gotten better but how much better. UK has not one player who can take over a game when needed as a scoring option. We shall see tuesday night playing against a team that just lost one of its best inside players.

I don't care who they've lost to. The point I was making is that it's not all based on who they haven't beaten. The lost by two in Chicago to Illinois who beat the number 1 team by two at home. While their record says they're horrible they are capable of playing better than that.

We pounded them at Auburn an they happen to make more shots and play better at home. That has nothing to do with the fact that these Cats have improved and won games doing so. The competition is still much better than OCC save the fours teams.

So I still don't see your point saying we've only played terrible teams in conference. Of the two conference losses they only lost one they shouldn't have in A&M and happened to lose on the road to a potential tourney team. Saying we only beat X team by X points is stupid. The Cats won the game and that's all that matters.

First of all I have 6th row basketball season tickets at UK. I love UK more than anyone. I caught so much hell while living in south carolina each yr. Thank god for 96, 97 and 98.

All I am doing is pointing out the facts UK are playing sub tourney teams and are not putting them away early and have drilled nobody but Auburn)

And untill they can prove to me they are top 20 team they need to beat a team like Fla. Our strength of sch is horrid. and to loose 6 or more games does not show alot to me and other people who dont drink the blue cool aid. And for Archie he had his buttttt on the pine for a ton of time sat. He is in no way a team player and he has no I mean no jump shot. For UK to move to each rd of the tourney they are going to have to play as a team a total team or they will not make it far this yr.

Don't tell him that. He'll then all caps you about how he has sixth row season bball tickets and how he gives so much money to the church he can't afford a $99 yearly subscription to this site.

At least I'm a smart one!